Word: genderism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Forum complements this increasing consciousness by booking expert guests from all disciplines and backgrounds. Upcoming speakers, for example, include Iraq expert Toby Dodge and Catherine Orenstein, a journalist and cultural critic who has written a book about the evolution of ethics and gender in fairy tales...
...secret that women of all races have been historically barred from acceptance within the careers of business, law, journalism or public service. It was not until the 1960s, 70s and 80s that serious social and legal pushes forced the American workplace to progress in terms of gender politics. In 1963, the Equal Pay Act was passed, requiring equal wages for equal work. And it wasn’t even until1980, that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) finally affirmed sexual harassment as an unlawful employment practice...
However, the interplay of these gender advancements with racism and race politics is a far better kept secret. The advancement of women of color within the American workplace and beyond is not a topic of widespread political interest. Professionally, women of color have struggled to surmount impediments to tenure and upward mobility, faced difficulties in creating minority women-owned businesses and entrepreneurial ventures and confronted the problem of being historically cut off from the social networks that enable career expansion and promotion. The specter of sexual assault and rape within the minority community and lack of knowledge about, and treatment...
...white’ dialogue continues to ignore the ‘black and female’ dialogue, how can we hope to include the panoply of ethnicities who face their own unique challenges? Do women of Asian and Hispanic descent also traditionally privilege their racial identity before their gender? Or is there some other dynamic that various racial groups bring to the table that will enhance our understanding of women’s experiences in the workplace...
Without a doubt, being doubly marginalized is a burden all too often unseen and unacknowledged. But perhaps the professional advancement of those who lie within this intersection of gender and race can expose the reality of just how far America’s workplace has come—and how far it has yet to go—in achieving true diversity...